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In one state, Florida, a person who is 20 cannot marry a person under 18 years old. In 3 states – Georgia, Tennessee and Ohio – a person who is 22 cannot marry a person under 18 years old. Indiana is nearly the same, although a person who is 21 can marry a person who is 17 years old. Minimum age in 50 states:
In July 2021, New York became the sixth state to ban child marriage. [11] In 2017, New York state raised the marriage age to 18, but allowed marriage at 17 in special circumstances with parental and court consent. [114] Prior to this law, the state allowed marriage in certain cases from the age of 14. [114]
Indiana’s law was enacted in the spring of 2023 amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb LGBTQ+ rights. It was slated to go into effect on July 1, 2023, but the month before, U.S ...
Romeo and Juliet laws were passed in 2007 in Connecticut and Indiana. [59] In Indiana, a change in the law decriminalizes consensual sex between adolescents if they are found by a court to be in a "dating relationship" with an age difference of four years or less [59] and other states have adopted similar reforms. Michigan passed a Romeo and ...
Indiana’s curfew law, which IMPD will begin enforcing, states children younger than 15 may not be in a public place after 11 p.m. or before 5 a.m. on any day. The law also states children ages ...
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The law prohibits licensed health care providers from practicing conversion therapy on minors within the state. [70] 17. [71] Colorado: May 31, 2019: August 2, 2019: Legislative statute On February 19, 2019, the Colorado House of Representatives passed HB19-1129, [72] which would ban conversion therapy on minors, with a vote of 42–20.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican-backed law. Federal judge blocks much of Indiana's ban on gender-affirming ...